Takashi Hishikari

Takashi Hishikari (27 December 1871-31 July 1952) was the commander of the Kwantung Army of Japan from 3 June 1930 to 1 August 1931, succeeding Eitaro Hata and preceding Shigeru Honjo and from 29 July 1933 to 10 December 1934, succeeding Nobuyoshi Muto and preceding Jiro Minami.

Biography
Takashi Hishikari was born on 27 December 1871 in Kagoshima, Japan. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1894, and he served in the First Sino-Japanese War before becoming Chief-of-Staff of the Japanese 1st Army in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1919, Hishikari took part in the Siberian Intervention in Primorsky Krai on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Russian Far East, fighting against Bolshevik partisans. In 1929, he was promoted to full General, and from 3 June 1930 to 1 August 1931 he commanded the Kwantung Army in China, leaving that position a month before the Mukden Incident. From 29 July 1933 to 10 December 1934 he was the Kwantung Army commander-in-chief once more, but he was once more replaced after a little under two years as commander. He died in 1952 in retirement.